Baltimore city police say that two people were hurt after a GEO Prism traveling in the fast lane on the North Avenue overpass on the Jones Fall Expressway rear-ended a 1997 Chevy van and subsequently became involved in another collission. The two drivers had agreed to move to the shoulder…
Nicholas Sabath and his 17-year-old daughter Sylvia were killed last Wednesday night on Leitersburg Pike near Antietam Creek Bridge. According to police, Sabath was driving westbound on Md 60 in a 1989 Honda Accord when he tried to avoid a Pontiac Sunfire that crossed the center line east of Lehman.…
David Helms of Bethesda, Maryland, will serve seven years in jail and three years probation. The sentence was issued following his guilty plea last month to one count of DWI and manslaughter related to the July 11 car crash on an Interstate 70 ramp that killed Northwest High School teacher…
Carson Daniel Fehner, 12, was seriously injured last Tuesday when the minivan that his mother was driving turned left into the path of a tow truck. He sustained critical head trauma and was airlifted to Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. His mother, Terri, was not hurt in the…
The Maryland State Police regularly put together a record of traffic accidents that occur on Maryland roads and categorize them by routes. Routes most often cited for where accidents often occur include the following areas: · Interstate 695 in Baltimore County · Maryland 2 in Anne Arundel County · U.S.…
Kadri Atalay, a 42-year-old man from Gaithersburg, Maryland, was charged with committing second-degree murder, after driving his Mercedes SUV on the wrong side of Wisconsin Avenue, NW, in Washington D.C. and hitting a Chrysler Sebring that was being driven by a 29-year-old DC man. The 29-year-old man was later declared…
The AAA recently released driving suggestions for teen drivers who may not be used to driving in snow conditions. Here are some of the tips: · Supervise your teen driver while he or she practices driving in snow or ice; let your teenager practice steering and hard breaking in skidding…
Three Elkton-area men were seriously injured last week in a single-car crash after a night of alleged heavy drinking. William Ross Hawkins III ran a Dodge Intrepid off Cayots Corner Road near Route 213, where he struck a culvert and flipped his vehicle at least twice. Hawkins and Christopher James…
The 41-year-old-woman who was arrested for hitting a toddler and his grandmother with her truck and then dragging the toddler in his stroller under her pickup truck for almost a mile as she left the scene has been indicted for auto manslaughter. Lazara Arellano de Hogue faces two felony counts…
In Annapolis, Maryland, a deadly car accident on Aris T. Allen Boulevard brought traffic to a halt for over four hours last Saturday. According to an Annapolis police spokesperson, a stolen white Volvo sedan had been speeding east on the boulevard near the Vineyard Road intersection when it crossed over…